[Object] To facilitate user's operations.[Solution] An editing apparatus is provided including: a component output unit for outputting a display screen on which a plurality of components are displayed; a node output unit for outputting a plurality of nodes respectively corresponding to the plurality of components on the display screen so that the nodes are displayed along with the plurality of components so as to overlap the display of the plurality of components; and a setting unit for setting, in response to a user's instruction of association between two or more of the nodes, an association between two or more of the components corresponding to the two or more of the nodes.
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1. A computer hardware system, comprising: at least one hardware processor configured to initiate and/or perform: outputting, to a display screen, a plurality of concurrently-displayed software components; outputting, to the display screen, two nodes respectively associated with two of the plurality of software components; and outputting, to the display screen and responsive to a selection of the two nodes, a link connecting the two nodes, wherein a first of the two nodes is graphically linked to the software component to which the first node is associated, and the first node displays a selected property of the software component to which the first node is associated.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first node is graphically linked to the software component with a three-dimensional shape, and the three-dimensional shape includes the one node as one portion and the associated software component as a second portion.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the one node is an upper face of the three-dimensional shape, the associated software component is a lower face of the three-dimensional shape.
4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the three-dimensional shape is a truncated pyramid.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the link is based upon the selected property.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein a second of the two nodes is associated with a tab of one of a plurality of windows.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to initiate and/or perform: displaying a plurality of tabs respectively associated with a plurality of windows, and maintaining, upon a selection of a new tab, display of the two nodes and the link connecting the two nodes.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to initiate and/or perform: outputting, to the display screen, a shadow for each of the two nodes.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of concurrently-displayed software components are a window with which an application program executed by the computer is associated.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of concurrently-displayed software components respectively create a display on the display screen.
11. A computer program product, comprising: a hardware storage device having stored therein computer-readable program code, which when executed by a computer hardware device, causes the computer hardware device to perform: outputting, to a display screen, a plurality of concurrently-displayed software components; outputting, to the display screen, two nodes respectively associated with two of the plurality of software components; and outputting, to the display screen and responsive to a selection of the two nodes, a link connecting the two nodes, wherein a first of the two nodes is graphically linked to the software component to which the first node is associated, and the first node displays a selected property of the software component to which the first node is associated.
12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the link is based upon the selected property.
13. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein a second of the two nodes is associated with a tab of one of a plurality of windows.
14. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer-readable program code further causes the computer hardware device to perform: displaying a plurality of tabs respectively associated with a plurality of windows, and maintaining, upon a selection of a new tab, display of the two nodes and the link connecting the two nodes.
15. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer-readable program code further causes the computer hardware device to perform: outputting, to the display screen, a shadow for each of the two nodes.
16. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein each of the plurality of concurrently-displayed software components are a window with which an application program executed by the computer is associated.
17. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein each of the plurality of concurrently-displayed software components respectively create a display on the display screen.
18. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the first node is graphically linked to the software component with a three-dimensional shape, and the three-dimensional shape includes the one node as one portion and the associated software component as a second portion.
19. The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein the one node is an upper face of the three-dimensional shape, the associated software component is a lower face of the three-dimensional shape.
20. The computer program product of claim 19 , wherein the three-dimensional shape is a truncated pyramid.
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